Ronald Hellwig

Ronald Hellwig (14 June 1870-22 July 1919) was a politician of the Weimar Republic.

Biography
Ronald Hellwig was born on 14 June 1870 in Bad Wildungen, Waldeck and Pyrmont (present-day Waldeck-Frankenberg, Germany)). Hellwig was of German Protestant descent. He became a member of the liberal movement in the politics of the German Empire and was one of the preeminent political leaders of the 1910s. In 1918, after the end of World War I, he founded the Timber-Frame Railroad Workers' Party, a movement later assimilated into the Nazi Party. He was known for his insistence that power be given to the people rather than the Reichstag.

On 22 July 1919, Hellwig was shot twice in the chest by Bruno Zamperini, an Italian exchange student who was a member of the German Communist Party, while he was buying pretzels from a store in Kassel. He died of his wounds shortly after.